You got a really good deal since chicken fryers are ususally expensive. Congratulations on your bargain. My daughter lives in the DC area, and says that cast iron is really expensive at the stores she has looked at. Maybe I should tell her to try the thrift stores; she would probably do very well there, since she is one of those fabled people that goes in for one thing, and comes out with two designer items at half price. That has never happened to me. Over the years we moved a lot when the kids were small, and invariably had to buy our own stoves or refrigerators for the houses or apartments we rented. My favorite stove came from a thrift store in New York. It had six burners and two ovens on the bottom. I loved that thing, and it was a real wrench to have to leave it behnid. You can get great vintage stuff at thrift stores. My current stove is a hideous avocado green with an oven on the top and the bottom. I bought that 25 years ago for fifty or seventy bucks, and I've used it every day since then. It's wonderful for baking at Christmas time. The guy from the gas company told me it's 53 years old, and it still works great, even if it's not so pretty. I love thrift stores, and I always look there when I need to replace food processors, etc.